Web-Services based Ontology Agent

The multi-agent systems (MAS) represent an environment for the design, development and deployment of intelligent and distributed processing systems focused on sophisticated applications, as the collaborative learning and the auctions. This paradigm aims for the encapsulation of specific functionalities in an intelligent and autonomous software component called agent. So in order to support a cooperative platform among agents is necessary to share the knowledge domain and to make easy the administration of the ontologies repositories. This kind of role is carry out by an ontology agent, which receives demands of specific services from the agents of the MAS, deals with them and responds with the appropriate message. Therefore in this work is depicted a methodology for building ontology agents that are encoded as Web services to federate functionalities regarding to the administration of ontologies through the Internet. The aim of the paper is to encourage the development of specialized agents that integrate all the tasks for managing ontologies, and that offer them to the agents community